From the first weeks of this new five-year term, he established himself as a key player.
Sometimes considered as a
“despised”
institution , often neglected by the executive during the previous mandate, the Senate returned to the center of the legislative game by appearing from the outset as an interlocutor open to dialogue and negotiation.
During the examination of the health bill, almost entirely emptied of its substance after its passage in the National Assembly, the senators rewrote a large part of the text, under the leadership of the rapporteur LR Philippe Bas.
A rewriting which allowed the bill to be the subject of an agreement between deputies and senators in a joint joint committee and to be finally adopted definitively by the National Assembly a few days later.
On the two other important texts of this beginning of term - on purchasing power and on the amending finance law - the senators have also put their paw on certain measures...
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